noun:

• truth of suffering - Buddhism term ➜ 四諦

noun:

• Gospel of Thomas (apocryphal) (book of the Bible)

noun:

• land of the barbarians

expression:

• although there are many of them

noun:

• statue of the birth of Buddha (right hand pointing at the heavens, left hand pointing at the earth) - Buddhism term

noun:

• upper wing of a plane

expression:

• in time of need; for a rainy day; in case of emergency

noun / ~する noun:

• generation of electricity

expression / noun:

• summer campaign of the siege of Osaka (1615 CE) ➜ 大坂冬の陣

noun:

• obtaining the respective numbers of cranes and tortoises from the total of their heads and legs; calculating the values of two unknown quantities from their unit total and the total of one of their attributes

expression:

• of all people

noun:

• number of people
• denominate number
• the number at the start of phrases referring to well known 'somethings', equiv. to 'seven' in "the seven wonders of the world" ➜ 三筆・四天王

expression / godan ~う verb (spec.):

• to make an appeal to the confidence of

noun:

• lantern hanging from the eaves of a temple or shrine ➜ 釣り灯籠

noun:

• War of 1812

noun:

• begging Zen priest of the Fuke sect (wearing a sedge hood and playing a shakuhachi flute)

noun:

• edge of town; outskirts of a village

noun:

• typical dress of the military class, usually worn together with a hakama ➜ 袴

noun:

• thirtieth day of the month
• thirty days

noun:

• shrine of evil deity

noun:

• thin strips of raw fish and squid

ichidan verb:

• to let a person take hold of; to bribe by slipping money into a person's hand

noun:

• clot of blood

noun:

• short arched (traditionally bamboo) fence around walls of traditional townhouses, esp. in Kyoto (protects lower walls from fouling or damage)

expression:

• birds of a feather flock together; horses work best together; don't mix your horses with your cows - proverb ➜ 牛は牛連れ馬は馬連れ